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The bold part in your command is your problem. With INDEXFILE= parameter you are telling imp to create you only the CREATE INDEX commands and that's what you see in your log file, all the other stuff is simply skipped by the imp utility. Remove your INDEXFILE= from your command and you'll be able to see the CREATE USERS command in the log file.

And BTW, do not run imp or exp utilities by connecting as sysdba - that's a guaranteed way to problems...

Jurij ModicASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
24 hours in a day .... 24 beer in a case .... coincidence?

Do you need to precreate anything before importing? As davey23uk allready mentioned, in your case you have to precreate all your tablespaces manualy because you are importing to the same box where the original 8i database exists and you do not want the imp to overwrite your 8i datafiles. Apart from that, imp will take care for everything else.

Give it a try (maybe with show=Y), but this time not with SYSDBA user, use some other "ordinar" user like SYSTEM - I have a feeling your problems have a root cause exeatly at the SYSDBA connection!

Jurij ModicASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
24 hours in a day .... 24 beer in a case .... coincidence?